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) Although the number of asylum applications fell from 660 000 in 1993 to 227 000 in 1997, this is not because persecution has decreased but because it is more difficult to apply for a visa. The Dublin Convention allows asylum applications to be made only in the first State entered by the refugee. The aim of the Schmitt report is clear: “To re-enhance the reputation and substance of the right of asylum, the qualification procedure should be tightened up, and abuses resolutely curbed”.
Moreover, the States on the edges of the Schengen zone are considered to be “secure”. They therefore become the border guards of fortress Europe. How can we consider countries that carry out serious discrimination against gypsies (Romania and Slovakia) as sufficiently safe for Belgium to send anyone it judges undesirable
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Finally, the current concept of the refugee is far short of that stipulated by the Geneva Convention of 1951, “A refugee is any person who, owing to fear of being persecuted, is unable to avail himself of the protection of that country.” In fact, nowadays refugees have to provide more and more proof that their lives are under threat, which obviously is difficult, if not impossible. For the European Union to finally apply the right of asylum, it would have to break with the obsessive practice of immigration control. The more we respect freedom of movement, the more Europe will be worthy of those who seek refuge here."@en1
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